May, 2017

Union Investment and the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC) have just crowned the most innovative PropTech companies in the world. The competition received more than 200 entrants from 46 countries, and the biggest winners are start-ups in the German capital, Berlin. The PropTech Innovation Award was initiated by Union Investment and the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC) as a way to celebrate, nurture and reward the most groundbreaking property technology …

The Mietpreisbremse – literally the rental price brake – was introduced in Berlin in June 2015. Politicians hoped that the legislation would slow the rate at which rents were rising by limiting property owners’ freedoms to raise rents. In actual fact, rents are now generally increasing faster than ever. According to a recent study from the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW), rents for apartments in Germany’s major cities are now rising …

Capital Language Solutions is a language services company founded by Richard Mayda and Sebastian Taylor: a company founded on a unique combination of experience, expertise and vision. The company's two founders have been working together for more than a decade, sharing a commitment to the highest quality in customer service, language teaching, translation and communication.